Heating arrangement for rooms and the like



H. LUBECK.

HEATING ARRANGEMENT FOR ROOMS AND THE LIKE.

APPLICATION FILED FEB. 4, 1919.

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HILDING LUBECK, OF HESERUD, SWEDEN.

HEATING ARRANGEMENT FOR ROOMS AND THE LIKE.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, HILDING LUBpoK, a subject of the Kingof Sweden,residing at Heserud, Sweden, (at present at Biltmore Hotel, New Yorkcity, N. Y.-,) has invented certain new and useful Improvements inHeating Arrangements for Rooms and the like, of which the following is aspecification.

This invention relates to heating arrange ments for rooms and the like,more particularly to a heating system in which radiators are employed toheat the rooms. The object of my invention is to provide a new form ofradiator and a novel arran ement of the same in the room, which will inmany respects be superior to the radiators commonlyused at present.

These radiators, in their present form, must, from an esthetic point 0view, be considered very unsatisfactory. The otherwise good appearanceof a room is often spoiled to a large extent by these radiators.Furthermore, owing to their construction and shape, they are verydifiicult to keep free from dust and dirt, and therefore they are alsounsatisfactory from a hygienic point of view.

In order to improve the appearance of a room, attempts have been made tohide these radiators from view, by building some kind of a cupboard orlike covering around them, with openings for the escape of the heat.While this may in a way fulfil its purpose as regards appearance, itmust be considered even more unsatisfactory from the hygienic point ofview.

Radiators made in accordance with my invention are both from theesthetic and from the hygienic point of view much superior to thepreviously used radiators, inasmuch as the new radiators will not differnoticeably in appearance from ordinary skirting boards, and throughtheir shape and arrangement they do not form accumulating places fordirt and dust; besides, they can be cleaned just as readily as ordinaryskirting boards. A further advantage of my new radiators over previouslyknown types resides in the fact that the heat will radiate from a pointclose to the floor surface of the room, and is therefore well utilized.Another impor, tant advantage is that, owing to my new radiatorarrangement, the heat will be distributed through the room quite evenly,thus insuring a comfortable heat in the room.

Specification of Letters Patent. Patented Sept, 27, 1921,

Application filed February 4, 1919. Serial No. 274,990.

door frame D. Arranged along the walls B and C are the radiators, formedof two vertically-extending spaced walls E,E,connected at their bottomby a preferably horizontal section E". The wall E of the radiator ispreferably in contact with the wall (B or C) of the room, and the frontwall E of the radiator is formed at its upper end with arearwardly-inclined portion E*, which is joined with the upper end ofthe rear wall E. The wall portion E* is preferably given an ornamentalshape so that it will, together with the front wall E, have theappearance of an ordinary skirting board.

The radiators are preferably made of sheet metal. for instance by firstsuitably shaping them in a rolling mill to the'desired profile, and thenbending the sheets to the box-like shape and making a tight jointbetween the two walls, as by welding or soldering their edges together.Such skirting board radiators, particularly if made of sheet metal, maybe constructed in certain desired lengths, to suit differentrequirements. They may of course be constructed in any other suitableway, as for instance by casting. The radiators may, if desired, besecured to the walls of the rooms in any suitable manner. (Not shown.)

In installing my radiator system, I preferably arrange the radiatorsections along the walls, wherever convenient, and where the wall isinterrupted, as for instance by a door, as shown at D, I connect thesections on both sides of the door by pipes F, preferably arranged inthe floor, and covered by a protecting board G on top of which may belocated a portion of the threshold H of wood or metal. In order to allowthe pipes to be readily connected with the radiator sections, the latterextend preferably for a certain distance into the floor, as shown.

In some cases it may not be possible, owing to the shape of the room, toprovide skirting board radiators all along the walls, or this may not bedesirable for other reasons. In order to preserve in such a case theuniform appearance of the room,'I may arrange in the spaces between theradiator sections proper, panels I, as shown at the left-hand side ofFig. 1, and also in section in Fig. 2, the panels I being provided, asshown in this latter view, in the corner C of the wall C; the panels Iwould preferably be shaped so as to present the same appearance as theradiator sections, that is, the appearance of an ordinary skirtingboard. The panels may be made of sheet metal, wood, papier mach, or anyother suitable material. The individual radiator sections are in thiscase connected by pipes in the fioor, as indicated by the dotted linesin Fig. 2.

The skirting board radiators according to my invention may of course bemade in different sizes, that is, in different widths and heights, tosuit the various requirements. Their height, for instance, may be madeconsiderably greater than that of ordinary skirting boards, withoutinterfering in any way with the good appearance of the room.

A molding strip J is suitably placed along the radiators, at theirjunction with the floor surface. The outside of the radiators and of theintervening panels I may be painted, if desired, to match the woodworkof the room.

In addition to the pipes F, the radiator sections are, of course,provided with suitable connections (not shown) for the admission of theheating medium such as steam, hot water, hot air, etc.

If desired, the radiator may suitably be insulated from the wall of theroom by interposing between its rear wall and the wall of the room alayer of suitable packing material, say asbestos, felt, or the like, orinstead I may simply leave an airspace between the wall of therroom andthe radiator.

Various modifications may be made without departing from the nature ofmy invention as set forth in the appended claims.

I claim as my invention:

1. In a heating arrangement for rooms and the like, radiator sectionsarranged alongside the walls of a room, and having their lower portionsin the floor of the room, and pipes, also located in said floor, forconnecting said radiator sections.

2. In a heating arrangement for rooms and the like, radiator sectionsarranged alongside the walls of the rooms and spaced from each other,said radiator sections being so formed as to present the appearance of askirting board, and panelsarranged in the space intervening between saidradiator sectlons, said panels being so formed that they will presentthe same appearance as said radiator sections.

In testimony whereof I afiix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

HILDING LUBEOK.

